It is absolutely wrong to say that children are all blank slates.

Twins who are also cared for and educated by their biological parents will have one become famous and the other end up in jail.

If children are all blank sheets of paper, how do you explain this?

The old man said in "On Contradiction": Internal factors are the root and external factors are the conditions.

To say that children are all blank slates is to only emphasize external factors and ignore internal factors.

Many adults are willing to say this when faced with their own character shortcomings: I was a blank slate when I was a child, but there were problems in my native family, so I have so many weaknesses.

This is the best excuse to blame the parents. Where has your personal subjective initiative gone?

Of course the external environment has a huge impact on a person, but it cannot change the nature of a person. To change a person's nature, he must change himself.

Gold is gold and wood is wood. If you smash the gold flat, it will still be gold after refining it. If you inlaid a piece of wood with gold and jade, it would still be a piece of wood.

Some orphans have had no one to care for them since they were young. They have experienced the hardships of the world and been bullied, but they still choose to be kind to the world. If we follow the theory that children are all blank slates, should this person take revenge on society?

Some people have received a good education since childhood and have everything going smoothly, but they will still choose to commit crimes when tempted by the outside world. Who can you blame?

Human beings are born with both good and evil. Freud said: The id is innate and is the basis of the personality structure. In the future, the self and superego will develop based on the id. The ego is located at the bottom of the personality structure. It is an energy system composed of innate instincts, desires, and various physiological needs. The id is unconscious, irrational, unsocialized and chaotic.

Some people are born with a strong ego, that is to say, their innate animality exceeds humanity and divinity. You just put all the moral models and education experts around him to accompany and educate him, and at most you can temporarily suppress his evil thoughts.

Once he encounters a strong inducement, he will choose to commit a crime.

So, we often see it in social news. They also get into disputes over trivial matters, and they are also cuckolded. Some people choose to take a step back, and some people choose to kill with a knife.

Only he can change this situation. Unless he constantly strives to correct his psychology, that is, change his own internal causes, he can turn earth and wood into gold and jade.

So, if a person is affected by the external environment and changes his good or evil, it can only mean that he has changed his internal factors through his own efforts in the positive or negative direction.

This does not mean that everyone is born with a blank internal cause.